Senior Controls Engineer

ZipRecruiter; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in Albuquerque is seeking a highly skilled Senior Controls Engineer with experience in automation solutions across various industries. The role involves leadership in implementing and commissioning control systems utilizing PLC, DCS, and HMI/SCADA platforms. This position offers the opportunity to work on significant projects while mentoring junior engineers and ensuring project success. Strong candidates will have over ten years of experience and a solid educational background in engineering.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Controls Engineer experience is required.
• In-depth understanding of PLC, DCS, and HMI/SCADA systems.
• Experience leading teams and mentoring engineers is essential.

Responsibilities

• Deliver innovative automation solutions and design standards.
• Lead teams in developing control systems for industrial processes.
• Manage project execution plans, including budgets and scheduling.

Skills

Project Management

Automation Solutions

Technical Leadership

PLC Programming

DCS Systems

HMI/SCADA Systems

Communication

Education

Bachelor of Science in Electrical/Control Engineering

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Tools

AutoCAD

Rockwell Automation

Wonderware ArchestrA

Siemens

Modicon

Emerson DeltaV

Job description

Job DescriptionJob Description

Position: Senior Controls Engineer

Trisian-Global Consulting LLC is seeking a highly skilled Senior Controls Engineer to work on-site in Albuquerque, NM. As a Senior Controls Engineer, you will be responsible for providing team leadership in delivering automation systems for a wide variety of industries. This position requires demonstrated technical proficiency in implementing automation solutions with PLC, DCS, HMI, and SCADA platforms, is responsible for interacting directly with the customer and leading a team of Engineers in identifying requirements, developing specifications, and implementing/testing/commissioning/qualifying automation solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver innovative automation solutions and design standards either self-directedly or as a leader of a team.
• Conceptualize, detail, and implement control systems for industrial processes and machinery that meet customers requirements. This involves the development of a control system architecture, selecting the components to be used, detailing schematic diagrams and system documentation, programming controllers (PLC, DCS, RTU), programming the process visualization (HMI/SCADA), developing databases for archiving/displaying historical system data and implementing/commissioning the control system at client facility.
• Knowledge of controller programming such as Ladder, Sequential Function Chart, Structured Text, and others to achieve the desired results is required. Also having knowledge of standard programming such as VBA, .NET, and SQL for the development of HMI/SCADA systems is .
• For larger systems, experience with industrial networking used to connect control system components and instrumentation is .
• Design, detail, and implement a variety of fiber, wired, and wireless systems using industrial protocols (Ethernet/IP, Profinet, Modbus, etc.)
• Project Management Responsibilities: developing project execution plans, work breakdown structures and associated budgets, task prioritization and scheduling, task ordering, time tracking and reporting, financial tracking and reporting, early problem identification, conflict management/resolution, leading and supporting a team, and attending project status meetings. Overseeing daily operations and activities of a project(s) up to $1M and responsible for ensuring the overall profitability of the project.
• Ability to work independently.
• Act as technical lead on projects and guide lower-level engineers and technicians.

Qualifications:

• Education Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical/Control Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or Computer Science is required.
• Experience 10+ years of Controls Engineer experience
• Rockwell and Cimplicity experience
• Various 3rd party web-based data integrations for monitoring and troubleshooting aid
• Develop work processes to automate template and instance development within the System Platform
• Provide technical leadership on design standards around graphics, alarming, and scale-up
  SQL, .NET, Power BI, Grafana, and APIs
• In-depth understanding of PLC hardware/software platforms such as Rockwell Automation, Siemens, and Modicon
• In-depth understanding of HMI/SCADA hardware/software platforms such as ICONICS Genesis64, Wonderware ArchestrA System Platform, GE CIMPLICITY, GE iFIX, Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View, Schneider, and Siemens
• In-depth understanding of DCS hardware/software platforms such as Emerson DeltaV or similar
• Experience in industries such as Semiconductor chip fabrication facilities, Life Sciences, Building Automation, Food and Beverage, Oil & Gas and Mining
• Experience in the design of electrical schematics, including power distribution under 480VAC, control panels, and associated NEC references desired
• Experience with AutoCAD is desired
• Experience leading a team of engineers/technicians to provide control system solutions
• Experience mentoring less experienced engineers
• Field device/equipment troubleshooting
• Job estimating

If you are a highly motivated and skilled Senior Controls Engineer with leadership skills, we encourage you to apply for this position.